The story was a good example for how bubbles develop, and I think they should have put their focus on that mechanism. The rest of the podcast wasn’t as good though.

The “printing-strategy” might work for card games, I don’t see how you could use this strategy to prevent asset bubbles or housing bubbles, however. Luckily, they didn’t suggest that it is a transferable solution.

However, the central bank analogy was misleading. The value of money is not comparable to the value of playing cards, there are no special coins with special powers and you won’t stabilize the economy by printing new currencies every few years, on the contrary. I usually like planet money a lot though.